Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, while speaking at the 3rd edition of an international conference on 'Arbitration in the Era of Globalisation', said that time has come to devise a comprehensive legislation which contains "compulsory pre-litigation mediation". CJI Bobde said, "The pre-institution mediation and settlement as mentioned in the Commercial Courts Act would pave the way for many more institutions to emphasize on the need of pre-litigation mediation considering its very many benefits. I think the time is ripe to devise a comprehensive legislation which contains compulsory pre-litigation mediation and a remedy for the biggest drawback in a mediation agreement that is to say the unenforceability of an agreement arrived at a mediation would ensure efficiency and also reduce the time pendency for parties as well as the courts."